Another question:

1) When in transit in South Africa (no overnighting), will there be a problem if there are two caliber markings and two different serial numbers on the gun?
When changing the caliber, the original marking 7,62mm stamped on the receiver was left untouched and the new caliber marking 8,2x53R was stamped on the side of the receiver.
Same with the serial number: a new one was stamped on the receiver, and the old can be found under the lever.
The permit is issued with the new caliber but the old serial number.
2) There are no markings at all on the barrel, yet the gun is take-down. Will this be a problem?
3) The same as above on arrival in Namibia?

- Lars/Finland

Don't know if you have time, but I'd get the old caliber ground off/stamped out and the area refinished. Why raise eyebrows or worse when it can realitively easily be taken care of now vs then, which might prove even more co$tly.

Schaukis

What Robert said. Do not even give any officials the chance to be confused.

Mark

I'd find the time to have someone grind off the offending numbers. If you don't and someone does catch it, you have about a 50/50 chance that you'll be able to proceed with some fast talk, but I wouldn't take the chance if I had a choice.

This would be a very good time to have one of the really good meet & greet services helping you "work" the system if necessary.

FWIW, I travel through JNB (or whatever it's called this week) on a fairly regular basis with my .500 that has 2 different serial numbers on it and I've never had any problems with it at all.

All I do is show them the permit and then point to where they'll find the matching serial number. If they ask what the other number is, and they very rarely do, then I just tell them it's a reference number from the manufacturer and not a serial number and they're more than happy with that.

The 2 different calibre numbers might however cause confusion.

i frequently go with a double with a xtra set of shotgun bbls. usually it causes at lease some type of grief trying to explain that 1 gun can do 2 things

Why not simply put both serial numbers on your 4457 as a hyphenated SN?

Ooops, just noticed you are from Finland, so you obviously won't be using a U.S. Customs form 4457, but Finland likely has a similar form, no?

Try not to make them think...

Rich
DRSS

quote:

Originally posted by Stonecreek:
Why not simply put both serial numbers on your 4457 as a hyphenated SN?

Ooops, just noticed you are from Finland, so you obviously won't be using a U.S. Customs form 4457, but Finland likely has a similar form, no?

Not to my knowledge.

Thanks for the input you all.
I had thought of deleting the extra serial number & caliber marking but I simply forgot to ask my 'smith to do it. I still have almost two months before the trip so might as well get to it.

- Lars/Finland

Everywhere I went with rifles, they have the permit, I get the rifles out of the box and read them the serial numbers.

That is it.

No one looks at them at all.